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Anti-terrorism Vehicle Authorization

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Submitted: 01-05-2022 Revised: 04-05-2022 Accepted: 08-05-2022
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ABSTRACT - The purpose of the project is to provide raspberry pi to extract the license number. The license
a robotized check post framework. When a vehicle number is matched with database of government and if
approaches a check post, vehicle’s number plate is identity of vehicle is authentic then servo motor opens
captured in pi camera, connected with raspberry pi the gate. A SD card in raspberry pi micro SD slot is
module. Vehicle’s number is extracted from number used to store authentic license plate numbers and their
plate with help of open CV and OCR (Optical identity. The process of image to text conversion is
Character Recognition). This extracted number, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Open CV
processed by the framework reflects the vehicle software is installed in raspberry pi.
information like ID of vehicle and owner’s details. If
the vehicle information is authentic then check post II. LITERATURE REVIEW
gate is opened, Otherwise check post gate remains In this paper a system captures image of
closed and a buzzer starts ringing which indicates an vehicle and identity is verified using Raspberry pi
unauthorised vehicle is approached to the check post. processor that there is no change in the original image
and test image. If any unregistered vehicle is detected
Key Words: Raspberry pi, Pi camera, Ultrasonic then system gives alerts to the computer using buzzer
sensor, Servo motor, Buzzer, Open CV Library, OCR alarm system. Input to the system is taken as image of
(Optical Character Recognition). vehicle and the output is detected number plate .This
paper consists of following processes: Coloured image
I. INTRODUCTION to grayscale conversion, vertical edge detection using
These days, security is major concern at every Sobel detector, converts non-linear image to linear
level. The worldwide terrorism threats every country. image, opening-closing and dilation, vertical projection
Most of the explosive and illegal weapons are and thresholding, location of number plate, filtering the
conveyed by the unauthorised vehicles in militant number plate and image enhancement, linearization and
zones. Any unauthorised vehicle must be checked and character segmentation for obtaining separate numbers.
not permitted inside. Now days, a manual checking of Linux operating system is used. Linux is an open source
vehicle is not trustworthy totally. A manual checking operating system. Here one can change codes and add
of the vehicle may a security risk. programs [1].
Thus, in this paper we propose an electronic This paper represents the following methods-
framework which connects the raspberry pi 3 with the In first method the pre-processing is done. In this the
environment components like pi camera, ultrasonic coloured input image is converted to the grey scale
sensor, servo motor and Buzzer. The Raspberry pi 3 is image which divides the image into number of pixels.
the name of a series of single-board computers made Next the Detection of edges is done using canny edge
by Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity in 2012. It detector where the edges of image are detected to
comes with a 1.2GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 reduce the discontinuities. Then the input image is
640bit CPU. The raspberry pi is head component of the dilated using morphological operator to increase the
whole framework. Generally vehicle license plate thickness of the number so that the number can be
recognition is divided into several steps including detected easily. Segmentation is done on the dilated
image acquisition, license plate extraction, character image. It performs like the numbers of the plate is
segmentation and character recognition. When the obtained separately. The segmentation uses template
vehicle arrives at the check post, Ultrasonic sensor matching algorithm like OCR. Lastly the numbers are
senses the vehicle and the Image of the license plate is enhancing to get better desired image at output. The
captured by pi camera and image is processed in
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camera should be of very high resolution so that the V. PROPOSED COMPONENTS WITH
output can be of very high quality [2]. THEIR FEATURES AND
In this paper firstly the image is captured using SPECIFICATIONS
pi camera and video is taken as input and captured 5.1 Raspberry Pi
images will be stored as colour jpeg format. The noise The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board
is present in the system. To remove the noise grey computers developed in the U.K. by the Raspberry Pi
processing and median filtering is used. Grey Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer
processing is used to convert the image into grey colour science in schools and in developing countries.
format and median filtering is used to remove noise. For  1Model: Raspberry Pi3 B
detecting the license plate region the borders of
 Quad Core 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 64bit
rectangular plate is detected using Bounding Box and
CPU
Edge Detector is used to detect the edge of vehicle.
 BCM43438 wireless LAN and Bluetooth Low
After Extraction segmentation is done. Segmentation is
Energy (BLE) on board.
used to separate the characters present in the license
plate. The OCR is used to recognize different characters  1GB RAM
and Digits. After recognition the characters are  100 Base Ethernet
displayed at output in the form of .txt [3].  Full size HDMI
 40-pin extended GPIO
III. PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE  4 Pole stereo output and composite video port
In this proposed architecture, raspberry pi GPIO  CSI camera port for connecting a Raspberry Pi
(General Purpose Input Output) pins connect the camera
environment components.  DSI display port for connecting a Raspberry Pi
touchscreen display
 Micro SD port for loading your operating system
and storing data
 Upgraded switched Micro USB power source up to
2.5A

Fig -1: Block Diagram of proposed system

IV. OPERATION FLOW CHART

5.2 Pi Camera
The Raspberry Pi camera module is capable of taking
HD 1080p photo and vide. In this framework, Pi
camera is used to take image of vehicle.
 5MP Omni vision 5647 Camera Module
 Still picture Resolution: 2592 x 1944
 Video: Supports 1080p @ 30fps and 640x480p
60/90 Recording
 15-pin MIPI Camera Serial Interface – Plugs
Directly into the Raspberry Pi board
 Size: 20 x 25 x 9mm
 Weight 3g

Fig -1: Flowchart of proposed system

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5.5 Buzzer
Buzzer is an electrical device that makes a buzzing
noise and is used for signaling.
 Weight: 13.6gm
 Operating Voltage: 12V

VI. RESULT
The system is successful in recognizing the
5.3 Ultrasonic Sensor number plate of vehicles. The system is based on
Ultrasonic distance sensor determines the optical character recognition technique which converts
distance to an object by measuring the time taken by the the vehicle image into a text. If the text matches with
sound to reflect back from that object. A typical stored data in SD card, the check post gate would open
ultrasonic distance sensor consists of two membranes. else remain closed and it will send an alert.
One membrane produces sound, another catches
reflected echo. Basically they are speaker and
VII. CONCLUSIONS
microphone. The sound generator generates short
The system is able to categorize the vehicles
ultrasonic impulses and triggers the timer. Second as safe or a security threat. The security issue, faced by
membrane registers the arrival of the sound impulse and many organizations can be resolved using OCR
stops the timer. From the timers time it is possible to proposed system. It is most efficient and accurate to
calculate the distance travelled by the sound. keep the records of all the vehicles. And the error rate
 Model: HC-SR04 in manual checking can be minimized. A robotized
 Sensor Type: Ultrasonic system not only provides ease of use also increases
 Output: Digital Sensor level of trust and accuracy.
 Voltage: 5DC
 Detection Distance: 2cm – 400cm (0.04M – 4.0M) REFERENCES
 Static Current: < 2mA [1] Radhika S. Dangare, P. G. (2016).
 Level Output: high-5V AUTOMATIC NUMBER PLATE
 High Precision: up to 0.3cm RECOGNITION for use in DIFFERENT
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DETECTINGTHE CAR NUMBER PLATE
USING SEGMENTATION.
[3] International Journal of Engineering and
Computer Science ISSN: 2319-7242 Volume 3.
5.4 Servo Motor
A servo motor is an electrical device which BIOGRAPHIES
can push or rotate an object with great precision. In this I. Deepak Kumar is pursuing B. Tech. from
system, Servo motor is used to open the gate of check AKTU Lucknow. His research interests include
post. raspberry pi oriented architectures.
 Model: Tower Pro SG90 Servo II. Dinesh Kumar is pursuing B. Tech. from AKTU
 3 pole ferrite, all nylon gear Lucknow and working at Xcedence. His
 Top ball bearing research areas are image processing and
 Operating Voltage: 4.8V~6.0V computer programming.
 Operating Speed: 0.12sec/60 degree III. Gaurav Kaushik is pursuing B. Tech. from
 Output Torque: 1.6kg/cm 4.8V AKTU Lucknow. His research area is embedded
framework.
 Dimension: 21.5 x 11.8 x 22.7mm
IV. Shadan Khan is pursuing B. Tech. from AKTU
 Weight: 9gm
Lucknow and working at Cognizant. His
research interests include C++ and Python
programming.

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